HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — When the so-called “Golden Hour” is ticking away for a wounded soldier on the battlefield, every second counts.As does each drop of blood. Massive blood loss is a leading battlefield killer, staunched only by quick first aid and rapid replenishment.But as the Army restructures and prepares for a potential large-scale war, the service’s medical planners recognize that getting patients to fully equipped hospitals in such a conflict may take days, and getting temperature-controlled blood products to the front lines might be even more difficult.Army Times attended a discussion panel at an Association of the U.S. Army event…
Author: Tommy Grant
The United States has many things that members of the Taliban and the Islamic State do not, and the right to a free press is among them. One Kansas journalist indulged in that right when he penned an opinion piece bemoaning America’s lack of an item the two terror organizations regularly use: mini-pickup trucks.“Many’s the time I’ve turned on the nightly news and seen Taliban or ISIS militants tooling around in mini-trucks, mostly Toyotas, with machine guns bolted to the bed ‘Rat Patrol’ style,” wrote Dion Lefler, opinion editor for The Wichita Eagle.“Every time I see that, I say to…
This article was originally published by James Bovard at The Mises Institute. On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University. She was abducted and vanished into the maw of the federal prison system. The Trump administration ignored a federal court order and took Ozturk from Massachusetts to Louisiana federal detention facilities. But the Trump administration knew Ozturk had criticized the government of Israel a year earlier, enough to seal her doom according to the…
The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, has launched an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether the agency violates American’s gun rights via excessive fees and wait times throughout its concealed carry permitting process. The investigation, aimed at defending Californians from alleged abuse of their Second Amendment rights, was announced on Thursday, March 27, as part of an initiative sparked by President Trump’s Executive Order directing Bondi to review Second Amendment laws and infringements across the nation. In bringing this investigation to light, the DOJ cites a legal challenge to the permitting process…
This story was updated May 4 to include new information from the Air Force on the number of first-term airmen and available jobs.The Air Force is dangling a new carrot for early career airmen who might be tempted to leave: almost any job they want.Starting June 1, all qualified first-term airmen — those serving under the initial contract they signed to join the military, which lasts four to six years — can apply for a new job in any Air Force career field where more than 10% of the positions are unfilled, the service said in an April 28 release.That…
The aircraft carrier George Washington will head back to the Japan-based U.S. 7th Fleet next year to serve as the Navy’s lone forward-deployed carrier, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced.Washington will replace fellow carrier Ronald Reagan, which has been based out of Yokosuka, Japan, since 2015.After Washington arrives in January, Reagan will head to Bremerton, Washington, for maintenance work, according to PACFLEET.From 2008 to 2015, Washington served as the first nuclear-powered carrier forward-deployed to Japan.The carrier has been in its so-called refueling and complex overhaul maintenance in Virginia since August 2017.Washington was originally slated to leave the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in…
Before the Trump administration began striking targets across Yemen to reopen global shipping, before many of its top officials included a journalist on a group chat to plan those strikes, in fact even before Donald Trump took office this January, many in his administration didn’t think attacking the Houthis was such a good idea.“We are burning readiness to the tune of tens of billions of dollars for what really amounts to a ragtag bunch of terrorists that are Iran proxies,” then-Rep. Mike Waltz, now the president’s national security advisor, told Politico last year. “Iran is the core of the issue.”“It’s…
By the time the First Army of the American Expeditionary Forces launched its first major offensive at St. Mihiel on Sept. 12, 1918, the world had been at war for nearly four years. With the success of St. Mihiel, Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF, set his sights on an even more ambitious advance: The Argonne Forest.It was here, however, that the American “Doughboys” encountered their first serious opposition — the German Fifth Army.During the grueling six-week campaign that ensued, the AEF was provided a degree of innovative air support that included the Army’s first home-manufactured airplane —…
As a comedian, you never forget the first time you bomb. For me, it wasn’t on stage.I was in southern Afghanistan in May 2014 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near me while covering a routine patrol as a public affairs specialist.It was something I had a dozen times before, but in a flash I was on my back, ears ringing, lungs full of dust. I don’t remember the sound — just the silence that came after. That was the first time I learned what silence was — that unique brand that only occurs when your brain is trying…
Have you ever confidently dismissed a warning because you knew you were right—only to have problems later because you were wrong? Just as driving with sunglasses at night can cause you to miss seeing a hazard in the road, so too can always wearing rose-colored glasses about your opinions and views of the world. In other words, our comfort can blind us to vulnerabilities when everything seems aligned with our beliefs and preferences. This happens after every flip in political power. Disclaimer: This article is not intended to be political. Instead, it aims to discuss how changing political tides can…